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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
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Acting in movies is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left.
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After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
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Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
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All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13 -
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.
Source: Twitter (2013)
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